The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1887-07-23
PROHIBITION IN LAFAYETTE
COUNTY.

COUNTY.
In another column of this issue will
be found the local option law in full.
I 4w a 9 lac sla a ahlsPF It g q % b 81 s Gallon 4a 3
apr16tf
Send to Chris. Meyers for the best bread.
it and see. m21tf
D.. Hacker will deliver fresh bread and
ols to any part of the city. jlstf
If you want genuine and pure whlskies
nd wines. call at Silvermsn's. apr1etf
Old Virginia and Tennessee Apple Bran
', at " so per gallon at Sllverman's, If
L. Rostagno pays cash for empty beer and
,rvefood bottles. Any quantity. july9t2
Beautiful French s~ateens, Batistes and
1ench chambeys in eolors with edges to
Itch, at Ahrens'. may14tf
Tor anne back, side or chest. use Shiloh's
8 Hieal many PIAso1..
it, but this law is much more radical
than that. No prohibition law could
be more sweeping in its provisions.
Section 6 provides, that if this law ID
adopted lit shall not be lawful for any
person within the limits of the city or
county, as the case may be, to directly
aIinaa;=aatlH all diractly or i~pdirectly,
| eigns in silk umbrellas with ebony rose
dpd and bamboo sticks, gold, silver and
tie lips. Price So to 80. apr3Otf
+ you have gotten tired of Kansas City {
1t, that you do not know anything about,
e at the new meat shop. next door to post {
This includes, by the TERMS VI tie
law previously stated, all kinds OF wine
and beer.
The strict letter of the law would
prevent q nan from giving his uncle
or aunt q drink of brandy for q
sudden attack Of cholera morbus. II
would certainly preclude him from
giving his friend a drink Of whisky
even though he might need it. Il
would wipe out our brewery, and pro
hibit a man from buying bottled beer
for bis sick wife, as we know is being
done to-day in Lexington by as worth,
people as there are in the town. |
would compel a poor man when HI
wanted it for family use either to bu.
whisky surreptitiously from person
who would violate the law, or wal
until he could send to Kansas City o
St. Louis for it, when perhaps tn
necessity for it would have passed
The rich man could fortify himself b
keeping it always in the house.
would prevent the orderly, decent
respectable citizen, who has all hi
life been in the habit of keeping liquo
in his house and partaking of it mod
erately and temporarily, from buyiD
it anywhere in Lafayette county.
| would wipe put the sale of Missoul
native wines, which are often bene
/ fetal, and never 80 far as we know
the source of intemperance or excess
And it would make Psul's iniunctio
to Timothy, so feelingly alluded t
: by a correspondent in another column
impossiblet comply with. The pei
atty for selling, bartering or givin
, away liquor under this law, in a"
quantity Whateve', is a fine of troI
$500 to $1,000, and imprisonment.
q We appreciate the force of all that
g said in behalf of temperance. W
recognize the evils of saloons. We be
f lieve in all laudable efforts towar
e temperance, but we do not believe
would be wise for this county to ado
so stringent a law as the one nov Pre-
: posed to US.
We impugn no ones motives. Gu.
are not to be impugned, either, for W
! do not frequent bar rooms OF habitua
~ drink intoxicants.
For all we know we may be in Il
minority in the county, but that shs
a not deter us from honestly expressil
our views,
Il With high license, the local optic
4 given us under the Downing Jaw, al
8 a strict police supervision, we belle
II the evils of the sale of intoxicsnts
r about reduced to its minimum, an
that TO go further is to fare worse, b
q violation of the law which is held
be too severe.